Henry goodman



Patented. Nov. 21, 1882 H. GOODMAN.

GONUBALBD HAMMER GUN.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

HENRY GOODMAN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF IO DANIEL P. KANE,

OF SAME PLAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,876, dated November 21, 1882, Application illed May 16, 1982. (No model.)

.To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY GOODMAN, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hammerless Guns, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of the same.

My improvement consists of the described means for cooking the hammers, arresting the tilting of the barrels upon the stock, and projectin g the extractor.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the device in section at 1 l, Fig. 4, the parts being in loading position, and some portions being in side view. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, except that the parts arein position afterring. Fig. 3 is a bottom view with the breech closed. Fig. 4 is a transverse section at 4 4, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a top view of the cockingbar, aud Fig. 6 is a modification of the same intended for a 'single-barrel gun. Figs. 7 and 8 show modifications of the device, part in side view and part in section.

A is the stock, and A' the breech-frame.

B are the barrels, connected to the breechframe by a hinge-joint, (l, that may be disjointed by swinging over the barrels to a certain position.

DD are ln gs projecting from the under side of the barrels. The lng Dl has a longitudinal recess, d, for the reception of an angle lever or plate, E, that is fulcrumed to the lug at F. The fulcrum-pin F is at a lower level than the hinge-pin C, so that the upward movement of the breech end of the barrels upon thehinge C causes the pin F to move rearwardly, thus pushing backward the horizontal arm e of the angle lever or plate E. The rear end ot' the arme bears against the forward end of the cooking bar or slide G, and on its rearward movement carries the slide Gr back with it against the hammers, which are thus pushed back and cocked, as shown in Fig. l. The amount of movement given to the hammers in cooking is regulated by the relative positions ofthe pins (l and F, the movement increasing as the pin F is more distant from that (l, or approaches a position vertically beneath it. As the arm e is moving backward its end passes beneath the shoulder I, said shoulder preventing the end of the arm from being thrown up as the breech is opened.

.lis a spring that tends to keep the arm c in a horizontal position, thus causing its end to pass beneath the shoulder I as it moves backward. As the breech is opened the upper arm, e', of the lever or plate E comes in contact with the end d oi' the recess d, when the breech has opened a proper distance and the movement is arrested.

When it is desired to remove the barrels from the stock the thumb is pressed against the knob E, so as to prevent the end ofthe arm e passing beneath the shoulder I as the ends ot the barrels are thrown up from the stock. In this case there is nothing to arrest the movement of the barrels, and they can be moved until the lug D can be lifted from the pin (l.

The cartridge-extractor K is operated by the pressure of the arm e against the inner end of the extractor, which projects into the recess d. The arm does not come in contact with the extractor until the barrels are just about to assume the position shown in Fig. l, the extractor remaining at rest in the iirst part of the movement.

In closing the breech (after charging the barrels) the lug D enters the orifice g in the cooking-slide Gr, and theinclined face d2 of the lng bears against the front side of the orifice g'and moves the slide forward, out of the course of the hammers as they are thrown forward against the firing-pins L.

S is the sear; T, the triggers, and U the trigger-guard. No novelty is claimed in these parts.

In Fig. 7 is shown another means for arresting the movement ot' the barrels in opening, the breech. In this the arm c is not relied upon for engagement. with the barrel-lug for this purpose; but a stop-pin, P, in the lug 1.)' works in a slot, e2, of the arm c and arrests the movement ofthe barrels at the right time.

In the modification shown in Fig. S the angle lever or plate E is dispensed with, except as to the arm c, and this arm is hinged to the slide G, instead of being hinged to the lng D. A shoulder, D2, of the lug D acts upon the end of the arm c to push it backward on the opening of the breech and canse the cooking of the hammers.

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In fittingmyiniprovementtoa breeuhdonder E, hinged within the recess, and having arms lo having outside hammers tho cooking-slide @and c', spring J, extractor 1,cocking-slide would be made with prongs, (shown in dotted G, having opening g, hammer H, iringlpin L, lines in Fig. 5.) said prongs niigngingwith the i and brecchf1aine A', having shoulder 1', as ser,

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The combination 0f barrel having ingr D and SAML. KNIGHT, lug D', the latter having recess 7, :ingle-plainlyl GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

